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POST SOLANT AMITY with the Members of “G” Company, 2Nd Battalion, 6Th Marine Regiment Volume 7, Issue 3 POST SOLANT AMITY With the Members of “G” Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment Volume 7, Issue 3 September 2009 Trivia Question 2: Uh, on a Sailor’s Unfaded Memories of Solant Amity I anchor at the mouth to the harbor, effectively blocking her escape, lighter note: Did Chesty Puller (Editor’s note: The PSA newsletter clear submarine, USS Nautilus, had should she try. have a tattoo? (Answer 2, page 4) is now in its seventh year of publica- been tailing the Santa Maria at the tion. Before that only emails flashed time. The next day we docked and stayed The only radio traffic that I passed back and forth among our lot. A few there for four days, where a drink was a request for the whale boat to months back, Tom DeLange reached We at first and unexpectedly en- cost 100 cruzeiros...a DIME? come back and pick us up. Again, out to our website and when asked countered Vera Cruz, the Santa no answers were provided and to provide thoughts of our distant Maria‘s sister ship. The result: a questions were discouraged. The yesteryear connection he responded full and resounding ―General Quar- upside? Well, I didn‘t have to dig a with a flood of “stuff” both interest- ters! General Quarters! All hands foxhole. :-) ing and instructional of those six man your battle stations. This is not months we all shared so VERY long a drill.‖ From my station as star- Speaking of jogging memories, ago. Enjoy!) board lookout I watched the pas- wasn‘t it in Dakar, Senegal that a The Belgian Congo was where I got certain group of Marines dropped During the Santa Maria incident I sengers of the Vera Cruz happily to go ashore and play Marine. It by the Soviet embassy and re- was an RM3 and, if I recall cor- wave at our approaching ship. seems that the Corps‘ radio equip- moved the USSR‘s flag, taking it to rectly, had a confidential security Then, and just as clearly, as the ment could not contact the naval their ship, and hanging it in their clearance. I remember our receiv- Vogelgesang made a sharp turn to radio equipment aboard the ship. I quarters? As a result it nearly ing some encrypted traffic that the port and our guns came to bear for was issued a portable radio, M1 caused an international incident. I OPs officer decoded and took to what appeared to be a likely broad- and .45 cal pistol. A grunt was as- think at that time everyone was the Captain, but I was never privy side, their waving hands dropped signed to me to turn the hand back on the LST. Of course, we to what it was about. Although I into a terrified, white-knuckled rail cranked generator for the radio solid, upstanding sailors would do recall that we made a sudden grasping mode. when I needed to contact the ship never have done such a thing. Had turn east and headed for Brazil. Confirming the ID of Vera Cruz, and relay the Marine‘s traffic. ya‘ll invited us, now that might I was a radioman aboard the Gear- we continued our pursuit of the Shortly after landing on the beach have been a different matter. :-) ing‘s sister ship, the USS Vogel- Santa Maria, then reported to be there was a virtual snowfall of para- The more I think back on some of gesang DD-862 which, for a time, just offshore of the Recife, Brazil troopers (well over a hundred) these things the more I start re- billeted the 1st Platoon of G-2-6 harbor and more than just a few dropped to the west of our location. membering. In our visit to Cape as we steamed ―all ahead full‖ to miles away. It was only shortly thereafter that Town, South Africa the one thing intercept the Santa Maria. Ship- we withdrew back to the ship. Eventually the Santa Maria was that really stands out in my mind is board scuttlebutt had it that our docked in Recife and we dropped I know that it was the Congo, as we like so many others, the indoctrina- orders were to intercept, fire a stood off the African coast for tion (think orientation or extremely warning shot across her bow and, Trivia Question 1: Years long roughly thirty days, and the landing strong warnings) that we were if she failed to heave-to, sink the “constant to intermittent pain and was done in this time period. I was given before going ashore. One of ship(!) and pick up the surviving swelling of the genital organs and never made privy to who the troops the things that were stressed was passengers and crew. However inguinal lymph nodes‖ was a con- were or why they were dropping in that we were not to speak to a black accurate the speculations were, dition experienced by some Pacific for a visit. During the time that we theater veterans of WWII including woman under any conditions, not I‘m sure glad we didn‘t have to do were on the beachhead, several Chesty Puller. What was the cause even just to ask directions. If seen that. Marines moved inland, but the and identity of the disease? (See talking to a black woman we would As a side note, it was my under- group I was with stayed at the land- answer 1, page 4.) automatically be arrested for solici- standing that the submerged nu- ing site and waited for their return. tation. And of course, we were completely subject to the local WWII’s Pacific Theater: Will Spielberg fare any better than Eastwood? laws. Should we be incarcerated in A few years back, I sent a copy Hanks and arranged for the text to man in K Company, 3-5 and fought the local jail when the ship sailed of Eugene Sledge‘s ―With the be turned into a screenplay, then, on Peleliu in September ‗44, and we would be left behind and noted Old Breed‖ to one of our mem- not surprisingly into next year‘s Okinawa in the spring of ‗45. as AWOL. bers and asked that it be passed HBO hit: ―The Pacific.‖ Throughout the many brutal months On the brighter side, the people in from member to member, each Eugene Bondurant Sledge he spent overseas, Sledge kept an Cape Town were fantastic. A local of whom was to write something (4Nov23-3Mar01) was born in Mo- unauthorized journal, jotting down his couple met George Lander and I on within it‘s jacket expressing bile, the grandson of Confederate impressions of the fighting and slip- the dock, just as we came off the their reaction to the book. It was officers. As a 1942 Marion Military ping his notes between the pages of ship for liberty. We were invited to to be given to one of our lot on Institute freshman studying to be- his bible. He later turned those notes their home for dinner and they took the following year‘s Marine come an officer, he decided instead into what has become recognized as a us sight-seeing around Cape Town, Corps birthday, as a gift. to sign on as a private in the Ma- classic memoir: With the Old Breed, including a visit to the Indian Well, as is the case with so many rines Corps. His rationale stemming At Peleliu and Okinawa. Ocean side to see it. They kept of the ―best laid plans of mice from a concern that if he waited for apologizing because their daughter After the war he returned to Alabama, and men,‖ the tome disappeared graduation he might not get a crack wasn‘t present to meet us. When married Jeanne Arcenaux, had two before reaching even the fifth of at experiencing combat. we saw a photograph of their sons, acquired a few college degrees our lot. Frustrated, I contacted daughter, we were sorry that she He was assigned to the 1st Marine and by 1970 was a full professor Steven Spielberg and Tom wasn‘t there as well. The one really Division as a replacement mortar- …………..(Continued on pg 2, Col 1) ……..(Continued on pg 2, Col 2) Copyright Post Solant Amity - September 2009 The Pacific (Cont. from page 1) A sailor reminisces (Cont. from pg 1) able to recall which port it was that Trivia Question 4: Payment we put into that had all the problems made mostly to married Marines of Biology at the University of outstanding memory of Cape with rebels. We posted extra guards for not eating in a mess hall was Montavalle in Alabama. Until Town was the day that we sailed. on the bow and fantail with 45‘s and called what? (Answer 4, Page 4) retiring in 1990, he taught zoology, There was a jetty that extended M1‘s. The government there pro- ornithology and comparative verte- into the harbor for some distance. vided extra security in the form of brate anatomy. Not only was the dock inundated While Woodstock Rocked additional jeep patrol with machine with people seeing us off, but guns mounted in the back of the Newsweek described them as ―a along the rocky jetty people were jeep. When we went on liberty there youthful, long-haired army…of lined up waving goodbye with were troops all over town. Machine hippies.‖ An army of 400,000, hands, white shirts or blouses or gun carrying jeeps patrolling the mostly white affluent youth, at- just a piece of clothe. There were streets, armed military stationed tending an ―electric pot dream.‖ more people seeing us off at Cape outside the entrance to stores and Town than there had been at our Time gushed over the tribal gather- other business establishments.
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